by elizabeth_morvatz@brown.edu | Dec 4, 2024 | Brown University
“All elected leaders buy votes. Even children know that” (NPR). This is how governance in India is viewed by many of its citizens: a system that is democratic in name, with duly elected leaders, but cannot avoid the influence of money and power. One of the faults of...
by Sean McGinley | May 8, 2024 | Ursinus College
On April 19, 2024, citizens of India, the world’s largest democracy, will start to participate in the Lok Sabha elections. The Lok Sabha is the lower of the two houses that make up India’s parliamentary system. Whoever wins a majority of the Lok Sabha’s 543 seats...
by Poon Singhatiraj | Nov 21, 2023 | Northeastern University
Despite not winning Thailand’s most recent election in May 2023, Srettha Thavisin of the Pheu Thai Party (PTP) became the nation’s prime minister in August. How could someone lose at the ballot box yet still become the leader of their country? Examining Thavisin’s...
by Jacob Stein | Nov 24, 2022 | Boston University
In 1959, Lipset posited that the modernization of a country is conducive to democratization. Lipset understood modernization to include development in industrialization, urbanization, wealth and education. The definition has since been extrapolated to include respect...
by Jiaqui Jiang | Jun 8, 2022 | University of California, San Diego
This spring, with the cancellation of pandemic restrictions in most parts of the world, China became the last large country to maintain the zero tolerance to COVID-19. Its “Dynamic Zeroing Out” policy sought to eliminate the virus using extreme regional restrictions...
